select chromium, chrome else firefox as default browser

Now that google-chrome requete-alpha build is published by Google [1], I have this
handy script as my default browser "selector":

#!/bin/bash
#
# $HOME/bin/browser.sh
# Author: JuanJo ( juanjosec O gmail o com  )
#
#   if running, try: chromium-browser, google-chrome
#   else:            firefox
#
case "$(ps -oargs= -C chrome)" in
 /usr/lib/chromium-browser*)
   exec /usr/bin/chromium-browser "$@";;
 /opt/google/chrome*)
   exec /opt/google/chrome/chrome "$@";;
esac
exec /usr/bin/firefox "$@"
exit $?

# Point2 me with the output from:
for p in /desktop/gnome/{applications/browser/exec,url-handlers/http{,s}/command}; do
 echo gconftool-2 -s $p -t string "$HOME/bin/browser.sh \"%s\""
done

In a related note, you can see current milestone (LinuxDev [2]) and what to expect for the next one (LinuxBeta[3]).

[1] Danger: Mac and Linux builds available
[2] Chromium LinuxDev milestone
[3] Chromium LinuxBeta milestone

ads blocking in chromium-browser

ads blocking in chromium-browser

One key missing functionality in chromium is extensibility via browser extensions or user scripts, damn useful in particular for blocking ads.
Although the support is there in the dev channel, it had been not available in the ppa binary debs for a while, but about ~2days ago user scripts started working ... yAY!! \o/

To the point:

dpkg -l chromium-browser # version: 3.0.183.0~svn200905 Chromium browser
mkdir $HOME/.config/chromium/Default/User\ Scripts  # yep, nasty white space :P
cd $HOME/.config/chromium/Default/User\ Scripts
wget http://www.adsweep.org/AdSweep.user.js  # ala adblock

# ... and then start chromium as:
chromium-browser --enable-user-scripts

To confirm you have it enabled, visit http://www.adsweep.org/ && you'll see a red status line, up-right, with the adsweep script version.

chromium-browser with bookmark keywords

I've been enjoooying chromium-browser on */Linux since last ~3weeks, you'll find lotsa references out there on howto install it, in my ubuntu it boils down to:

echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu hardy main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/chromium.list
#echo "Acquire::http::Proxy::ppa.launchpad.net DIRECT;" > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/85launchpad
apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 4E5E17B5
apt-get update
apt-get install chromium-browser

One important functionality I was missing was the ability to create "%s" bookmarks (ala firefox), the nice thing is that it's actually support, tho not "fancy" at the moment because of laking bookmark editor (May/09).
Good news is that you can actually ride it via sql:

#!/bin/bash
# Author: JuanJo
# License: GPLv2+
# Usage: (chromium-browser must not be running)
#   ./chromium-browser_keywords.sh ## *see* it, then:
#   ./chromium-browser_keywords.sh | sqlite3 $HOME/.config/chromium/Default/Web?Data
# Goodies:
# at the address bar type eg:
#   yh tate
#   wa theta
#   rae teta
#   bspot juanjosec

KEYWORDS="
yh http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%s
wa http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%s
rae http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltConsulta?TIPO_BUS=3&LEMA=%s
bspot http://%s.blogspot.com
#foo http://%s.foo.com/
"
while read k url;do
  case "$k" in ""|\#*) continue;;esac
  echo -n "INSERT INTO keywords (short_name, keyword, favicon_url, url) "
  echo "VALUES ('$k','$k','about:blank','$url');"
done < <(echo "$KEYWORDS"| sed 's/%s/{searchTerms}/') 

Incidentally nuff, I'm now at a roaming session I need to last +4hs, so I closed my ff-3.1b3 cpu toaster and left riding entirely on chrome-browser (who needs flash after all ?).